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''Synopsis:'' {{Infobox_Contents | topic_name = Nestorius (386 - 451) was Patriarch | subtopics = [[Nestorianism]]* [[Assyrian Church of Constantinople the East]]* [[The Truth About the Christian Faith (April 10Mar Odisho, 428 - June 22, 431). He received his clerical training as a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia in Antioch and gained a reputation for his sermons that led to his enthronement by Theodosius II as Patriarch following the death of Sisinius I in 428 1298 C.E. Nestorius is considered to be the originator of the Christological heresy known as Nestorianism, which emerged when he began preaching against the new title Theotokos or Mother of God.)]]| opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |}}
[[Nestorianism]]
[[Assyrian Church of the East]]
[[The Truth About the Christian Faith (Mar Odisho, 1298 C.E.)]]
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==Main article==
===Nestorius and His Theological Influences===
===The Teaching of Nestorius===
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Nestorius (386 -451) was Patriarch of Constantinople (April 10, 428 ---__TOC__{{topics}}June 22, 431). He received his clerical training as a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia in Antioch and gained a reputation for his sermons that led to his enthronement by Theodosius II as Patriarch following the death of Sisinius I in 428 C.E. Nestorius is considered to be the originator of the Christological heresy known as Nestorianism, which emerged when he began preaching against the new title Theotokos or Mother of God.
Nestorius, born in Euphratesian [[Syria]] 31 years after Theodore of Mopsuestia (c.381), was destined to have his name permanently linked with the great mepasqana because of his [[Dyophysite]] pronouncements and the adoption by the faculties of [[Edessa]] and [[Nisibis]] of his and Theodore's polemics and commentaries. Together, Theodore and Nestorius served as the wellsprings of the two Mesopotamian schools that carried the banner of Nestorianism.
The Nestorian spirit was redoubtable. Secured in the Persian Church, it continued to flourish in the seventh century despite persecution from the Sassanids, and after the invasions of the Turks and Mongols. Nowhere is its intellectual vibrancy and spirit more apparent than in its theological school, Nisibis, the successor to Edessa. It is here where our narrative leads, and the explication of the environment that produced Paul's Dyophysite text and Junillus's Instituta Regularia Divinae Legis begins.
Nestorius, a Syrian monk from Antioch, was elected Patriarch of Constantinople in 428, possibly because he was a popular preacher.
Whereas the Syriac Fathers were willing to leave the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in the realm of mystery, the Alexandrians sought a clear-cut doctrine that would guard the church against heresy.
At the time, Theotokos ("bearer/mother of God") was a popular term in the Western Church (including Constantinople) used to refer to the Virgin Mary, but it was not used in Antioch.
